Many English language learners (ELL) struggle to function in English-only classes and to compete with their native English-speaking peers, and tend not to fare well on high-stakes testing. One such example is the Vietnamese American students at City Middle School whose reading levels ranged from an alarming 1.5 to 4 (mid-year first grade to fourth…

A sample of 73 Vietnamese refugees living in San Diego North County, California, was surveyed about their educational and vocational background, both before and after arrival in the United States. The average age of the respondents was 34 years. The respondents had received an average of 11.5 years of education in Vietnam and 20.5 months in the…

This is the first of a series of articles on the Vietnamese who have come to the U.S. since 1975. It deals with the making of the refugees and describes how the negative motivations and regrets with which they have come may act as obstacles to their adjustment to American life. (Author/GC)

Presents findings from a study of treatment of the Vietnam war in children's literature. Found that there have not been a large number of books published on subject. Those dealing with subject witness the horrors of the war while treating the conflict as an isolated incident, without a past, and having only a tenuous relationship to our national…

Describes the cultural background of the Vietnamese people, the trauma of their refugee experience, and patterns of coping with the resettlement process. Addresses the role of the social worker in the assessment of and intervention with problems of Vietnamese refugees. (JAC)

Presents an analysis of the tense marking of 16 Vietnamese speakers learning English as a second language, which shows there are a number of surface-level constraints that systematically affect the incidence of tense marking, including the distinction between regular and irregular verbs and the shape of the suffix on the regular verb. (SED)

Describes all phases of the effort for the reception and resettlement of Vietnamese refugees in Great Britain carried out by the BCAR (British Council for Aid to Refugees), the Ockenden Venture, and the Save the Children Fund. Addresses particularly the educational program and the problems of each age group and category. (MES)

Investigated relationships among premigration stresses, nightmares, acculturation stresses, personal efficacy and depression in 147 adult Vietnamese Americans. Found that premigration stresses, nightmares, and acculturation stresses had significant indirect effects on depression. Acculturation stresses diminished personal efficacy, and weakness of…

Examines how Vietnamese refugees use the American legal system to address grievances arising during resettlement and how resettlement affects the pace of their legal adaptation. Data from state and federal civil cases involving Vietnamese litigants indicate that several aspects of Vietnamese litigation match their resettlement process, such as…

Ethnomethodology frames "culture" as enactments by participants that need to be studied in specific moments of interaction. The key research question is how people display in their talk particular understandings of culture with and for each other. In this paper we explore the way cultural categories are deployed by teachers and parents (of Chinese…

This research anthology is the fifth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and examines the patterns of Asian parents'…

This paper provides information to American families who are interested in sponsoring Vietnamese refugees resettling in the United States. It traces the conditions that resulted in the coming of Vietnamese to this country following the end of American involvement in the Indochinese war and the subsequent unification of North and South Vietnam…

Reviews current issues in adoption: termination of parental rights, rights of unwed fathers, subsidized adoption, the recent influx of Vietnamese children, black market babies, agency accountability in placing children, the right of the adoptee to know his biological parents. (ED)

A conference on Indochinese refugees, attended by representatives of Southeast Asian countries of first asylum and Western resettlement countries, has developed a Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA) prescribing new measures to address continuing emigration from Vietnam and Laos. The CPA calls for the following measures: (1) controls on departures…

An illustrated guide to aspects of life in the United States is presented in Vietnamese for recent Vietnamese arrivals. The guidelines address such topics as resettlement agencies, community relations and national customs, the U.S. government, local and long distance transport, mail and telephone communication systems, employment practices, the…